Behind every great man there is a great woman? I would say that behind every infantile Rescuer there are unhappy relatives. And nowhere is that easier to see than in the Mackenzie family in the series “Big Little Lies”.
How should parents behave when a child (a girl aged 3 to 5) starts fighting for her father's attention? Or a boy for his mother's? How do you react when, for instance, a girl competes with her mother for daddy's attention and tries to “knock” her mother out of the conversation? What do children often do when they see mum and dad hugging? They try to wedge themselves in between them.
Where does any speech, flirtation, conversation or suggestion begin? It begins when the other person - the manager, the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the audience, the man - finds out that you exist and focuses their attention on you. It sounds obvious, but there is no point talking to a hall that is staring at its smartphones out of boredom. How do you get someone's attention?
Trolling online, mobbing at work, bullying at school - these are forms of harassment, of psychological violence, expressions of deliberate verbal aggression directed at us. Harassment has many names and one and the same essence.
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